Re:is this a repeat? anyone remember?
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That's because you're thinking of this article in Wired Magazine: Never Say Die.
Re:Yeah, but the trailer I saw was REALLY GOOD.
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That trailer actually gave me shivers in ways that NOTHING about the previous film was even remotely able.
It gave me shivers because Lucas doesn't have a good track record for filming believable romance. Look at the creepy Luke/Leia flirting in Ep. IV and V or the weird exchanges between the 14-yr. old Queen and 9-yr. old Anakin in Ep. I, for example... And when the Queen exclaims "My Anny, you've grown!" in the preview, I could sense a million voices crying out in pain, only to be suddenly silenced.
But, "the emprire strikes back" was good, because the story included that from the beginning.
Lucas claims he had all the movies planned, but I think he was winging it on Return of the Jedi. Let's face it, there was a romantic undercurrent between Luke and Leia in Episodes IV & V. Why would Lucas have done that if he knew all along that Luke and Leia were siblings? And in the original ROTJ script, Lando kicks the bucket. Things were definitely in flux.
MST3K on Sci-Fi suffered the same problem as MST3K on Comedy Central: Mike didn't have quite the strength as Joel. I didn't mourn all that much over its loss.
This is debatable--in fact it was debated for years through a vicious MSTie flamewar. I'll agree, though, that the writing went downhill after Frank Conniff Jr. and Trace Beaulieu left. The last few seasons there were a lot fewer jokes and most of them were low-brow. Still, it remained a funny show. I have no idea what the ratings were like...
What? Maniac Mansion didn't make it onto the list!
Agreed, it's a funny game, but any game that has the commands "Push," "Pull," "Open," "Unlock," and "Use" has some serious usability problems. Which do you use on a door?
Unfortunately, on Netscape 4.7x for Mac, the ads often don't pop to the back, and hitting Command-W (the close window key combo) closes the window with the content you wanted to see. Meanwhile, on my Windows machine at work, it's simply embarrasing to see a scantily-dressed spokesmodel promoting spy-camera use when I'm trying to read the Reuters feed on Yahoo!
I think spammers should pay a penny per k to both me and my ISP... it'd make me a few hundred bucks a month for my time, bandwidth, and hardware costs. Spammers take away my property and happiness.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but unless you're paying for your Internet access by the minute, I doubt you're actually paying to download spam.
How do you figure you have hardware costs? Are you storing your spam? Saying spammers should contribute to the cost of your computer is like asking telemarketers to contribute to the cost of your fancy new phone.
And you can't very well charge spammers for your time. Think of all the legal advertisments that take up your time. You have to sort ads out of your mail, flip through ads in magazines and newspapers, endure commercials on TV, and hang up on telemarketers, after all. Can you charge a company every time you have to see their name on a billboard just because it makes you unhappy?
Just playing devil's advocate here. I support anti-spam laws similar to the ones that govern telemarketing--requiring spammers to use "do not email" lists (though I suppose it'd be unlikely to work in practice). I can't see requiring spammers to pay individual recipients. Do you really want the U.S. government to meddle in the international Internet that much?
Aah. But just because you disagree doesn't mean I was flaming...
And if you've ever played the text-heavy first Final Fantasy or even the ebonics-laden FF7, you'll know that storylines are not necessarily Square's strong point.
it's nice to see a formal survey that supports our intuition
I don't know about your intuition, but according to mine, if someone were to give out exact copies of the latest Robert Grisham novel for free on the streets, sales would go down.
So my choices are societies that embrace porn (and European women have their problems with body image as well) or societies like Saudi Arabia where women are forced to cover their entire bodies and have aren't even allowed to have jobs?
BTW, I wasn't intentionally trolling, silly moderator. Perhaps my rape comment was off-base, but I stand by the assertion that anorexia and other eating disorders is linked to the way women's bodies are objectified and portrayed in our society. My point was too take issue with the poster who said "porn good, violence bad." It's not that simple.
You've got games where you can frag or blow up humans, mutants, zombies, terrorists, counter-terrorists, buildings, spaceships, starships, elves, dwarves, attack choppers, gangsters, aliens, vampires, hostages, and beings from the Alice in Wonderland universe. And you're concerned about Lara Croft's short shorts?
I think you'd be hardpressed to prove that fictional scenarios like the ones you mentioned above are more harmful than the pervasive objectification of women which results in real-world problems like rape and anorexia.
they also will almost always go too far and require corrective action...
There's more to parenting than punishing kids every time they make a mistake. You have to teach them why some actions are right and some are wrong. And you have to trust that they'll be able to find their own way through the gray areas. Lead by example.
it's the basic role of a parent to persuade, convince, or force them...
On the contrary, you should encourage kids to make their own decisions. Just make sure they know the consequences of their actions. We're talking about high schoolers here--if you try to clamp down on them, they'll just rebel.
I don't know where you got that story from, but according to this guy the art director for The Doors painted petroglyphs in oil-based paint on a blank cave wall...
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That's because you're thinking of this article in Wired Magazine: Never Say Die.
That trailer actually gave me shivers in ways that NOTHING about the previous film was even remotely able.
It gave me shivers because Lucas doesn't have a good track record for filming believable romance. Look at the creepy Luke/Leia flirting in Ep. IV and V or the weird exchanges between the 14-yr. old Queen and 9-yr. old Anakin in Ep. I, for example... And when the Queen exclaims "My Anny, you've grown!" in the preview, I could sense a million voices crying out in pain, only to be suddenly silenced.
But, "the emprire strikes back" was good, because the story included that from the beginning.
Lucas claims he had all the movies planned, but I think he was winging it on Return of the Jedi. Let's face it, there was a romantic undercurrent between Luke and Leia in Episodes IV & V. Why would Lucas have done that if he knew all along that Luke and Leia were siblings? And in the original ROTJ script, Lando kicks the bucket. Things were definitely in flux.
Wired also has a couple articles on the subject here(1), here(2) and here(3)."
Pardon me for being nit-picky, but Wired News (owned by Lycos) is very different from Wired (the magazine owned by Conde-Nast).
MST3K on Sci-Fi suffered the same problem as MST3K on Comedy Central: Mike didn't have quite the strength as Joel. I didn't mourn all that much over its loss.
This is debatable--in fact it was debated for years through a vicious MSTie flamewar. I'll agree, though, that the writing went downhill after Frank Conniff Jr. and Trace Beaulieu left. The last few seasons there were a lot fewer jokes and most of them were low-brow. Still, it remained a funny show. I have no idea what the ratings were like...
What? Maniac Mansion didn't make it onto the list!
Agreed, it's a funny game, but any game that has the commands "Push," "Pull," "Open," "Unlock," and "Use" has some serious usability problems. Which do you use on a door?
The people behind the Sci-Fi channel are quite brilliant.
They can't be that brilliant. They cancelled MST3K and just today they played "So I Married an Axe Murderer." That's not sci-fi!
Unfortunately, on Netscape 4.7x for Mac, the ads often don't pop to the back, and hitting Command-W (the close window key combo) closes the window with the content you wanted to see. Meanwhile, on my Windows machine at work, it's simply embarrasing to see a scantily-dressed spokesmodel promoting spy-camera use when I'm trying to read the Reuters feed on Yahoo!
It was just a joke. I didn't mean to offend you. So, I take it you like Brent Spiner a lot?
So security by obscurity isn't working well for you?
Some kids in Santa Fe did this at their high school. Needless to say, they were arrested.
This may be neat (I can't tell since it's been Slashdotted), but I'll bet I know someone who beat them to it.
One thing you don't want to do is publically flame someone who still has your root passwords...
Now might be a good time for you to change these!
Actually you need more than that unless you want an experiment in in-breeding (read: The Royal Family).
I think spammers should pay a penny per k to both me and my ISP... it'd make me a few hundred bucks a month for my time, bandwidth, and hardware costs. Spammers take away my property and happiness.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but unless you're paying for your Internet access by the minute, I doubt you're actually paying to download spam.
How do you figure you have hardware costs? Are you storing your spam? Saying spammers should contribute to the cost of your computer is like asking telemarketers to contribute to the cost of your fancy new phone.
And you can't very well charge spammers for your time. Think of all the legal advertisments that take up your time. You have to sort ads out of your mail, flip through ads in magazines and newspapers, endure commercials on TV, and hang up on telemarketers, after all. Can you charge a company every time you have to see their name on a billboard just because it makes you unhappy?
Just playing devil's advocate here. I support anti-spam laws similar to the ones that govern telemarketing--requiring spammers to use "do not email" lists (though I suppose it'd be unlikely to work in practice). I can't see requiring spammers to pay individual recipients. Do you really want the U.S. government to meddle in the international Internet that much?
Aah. But just because you disagree doesn't mean I was flaming... And if you've ever played the text-heavy first Final Fantasy or even the ebonics-laden FF7, you'll know that storylines are not necessarily Square's strong point.
How many kinds of fish can you name?
This was intended to be funny rather than a flame, but I see a certain moderator takes criticism of video-game based movies personally.
Why speculate on how FF will be dubbed? No other computer-animated movies so far have gotten this treatment. I doubt it's even a remote possibility.
I don't know about your intuition, but according to mine, if someone were to give out exact copies of the latest Robert Grisham novel for free on the streets, sales would go down.
"Cracker" will never catch on. Most people still think of it as a derogatory term for poor white folk. How about "attacker"?
BTW, I wasn't intentionally trolling, silly moderator. Perhaps my rape comment was off-base, but I stand by the assertion that anorexia and other eating disorders is linked to the way women's bodies are objectified and portrayed in our society. My point was too take issue with the poster who said "porn good, violence bad." It's not that simple.
I think you'd be hardpressed to prove that fictional scenarios like the ones you mentioned above are more harmful than the pervasive objectification of women which results in real-world problems like rape and anorexia.
There's more to parenting than punishing kids every time they make a mistake. You have to teach them why some actions are right and some are wrong. And you have to trust that they'll be able to find their own way through the gray areas. Lead by example.
it's the basic role of a parent to persuade, convince, or force them...
On the contrary, you should encourage kids to make their own decisions. Just make sure they know the consequences of their actions. We're talking about high schoolers here--if you try to clamp down on them, they'll just rebel.
I don't know where you got that story from, but according to this guy the art director for The Doors painted petroglyphs in oil-based paint on a blank cave wall...